HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 311 348
Rank change year-on-year +18 +37 -8
Contract jobs citing HP 68 69 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.11% 0.99% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 50 94
10th Percentile £187 £150 £203
25th Percentile £405 £328 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -18.42% +11.50%
75th Percentile £608 £500 £623
90th Percentile £723 £539 £714
England median daily rate £463 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 3
10th Percentile - - £19.69
25th Percentile - £18.13 £20.84
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.97 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.96% -10.79% -1.71%
75th Percentile - £23.80 £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £23.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -22.85% -1.71%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,106 6,972 9,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.11% 43.35% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 4,532 6,401
10th Percentile £325 £313 £319
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.67
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for HP in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -1 11 £496 +41.57% 3
West London -10 1 - - 1
South London - 1 £175 -
HP
England

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (20.59%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.47%) BASE24
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.47%) PORTIA
2 1 (1.47%) Sage X3
2 1 (1.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (17.65%) Azure
3 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.82%) PowerApps
4 4 (5.88%) IaaS
4 4 (5.88%) PaaS
4 4 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.41%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) AWS
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.94%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.65%) SSL
1 12 (17.65%) Wireless
2 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 4 (5.88%) DHCP
3 4 (5.88%) DNS
4 3 (4.41%) SAN
4 3 (4.41%) VPN
4 3 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.47%) ATM
5 1 (1.47%) BGP
5 1 (1.47%) DECT
5 1 (1.47%) DWDM
5 1 (1.47%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.47%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.47%) HTTP
5 1 (1.47%) MPLS
5 1 (1.47%) OSPF
5 1 (1.47%) RIP
5 1 (1.47%) SDH
5 1 (1.47%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.41%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (41.18%) JIRA
2 5 (7.35%) Zephyr
3 4 (5.88%) TestRail
4 2 (2.94%) JMeter
4 2 (2.94%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.94%) Selenium
5 1 (1.47%) Gatling
5 1 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.47%) Banking
3 12 (17.65%) Finance
4 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Electronics
7 2 (2.94%) Front Office
7 2 (2.94%) Law
7 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Back Office
8 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Architect
2 11 (16.18%) Senior
3 10 (14.71%) ServiceNow Architect
4 9 (13.24%) Test Manager
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) IT Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Desktop Support
8 4 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Test Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
9 3 (4.41%) IT Support
9 3 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365 Manager
9 3 (4.41%) Server Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) JSON
1 14 (20.59%) REST
2 13 (19.12%) AngularJS
2 13 (19.12%) SOAP
3 12 (17.65%) Apache Camel
3 12 (17.65%) HTML
3 12 (17.65%) HTML5
3 12 (17.65%) JDBC
3 12 (17.65%) jQuery
3 12 (17.65%) LDAP
3 12 (17.65%) ODBC
3 12 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (17.65%) SAML
3 12 (17.65%) Web Services
4 2 (2.94%) Middleware
5 1 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.47%) Kafka
5 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.71%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.41%) Smartphone
4 3 (4.41%) Tandem
5 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.94%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.47%) EMV
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.47%) PKI
6 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Windows
2 12 (17.65%) Android
2 12 (17.65%) Mac OS
3 8 (11.76%) Linux
4 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.94%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.94%) Windows 8
6 2 (2.94%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.47%) Unix
7 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Agile
2 21 (30.88%) DevOps
3 20 (29.41%) Customer Service
4 16 (23.53%) ITSM
5 15 (22.06%) Microservices
6 14 (20.59%) Scrum
7 12 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
7 12 (17.65%) ITIL
7 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 12 (17.65%) Test Management
7 12 (17.65%) Test Strategy
7 12 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (11.76%) Defect Management
10 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (11.76%) Test Planning
11 7 (10.29%) Migration
12 6 (8.82%) End-to-End Testing
12 6 (8.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.12%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) C
3 3 (4.41%) Java
3 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.41%) Python
4 2 (2.94%) C++
4 2 (2.94%) COBOL
5 1 (1.47%) VB
5 1 (1.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) Degree
5 4 (5.88%) ISTQB
6 3 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.94%) MCITP
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.94%) PMP
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) SLA
2 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.94%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 15022
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.94%) Docker
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) vSphere
3 2 (2.94%) XenApp
4 1 (1.47%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.47%) Firmware
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.47%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 12 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.94%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.94%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.94%) Nagios
3 2 (2.94%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (2.94%) SCOM
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 1 (1.47%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.47%) OpenView
4 1 (1.47%) OPNET
4 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.47%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.47%) vMotion
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) Dell
2 17 (25.00%) Cisco
3 14 (20.59%) ServiceNow
4 13 (19.12%) Apple
5 12 (17.65%) BMC
5 12 (17.65%) Ivanti
5 12 (17.65%) Remedy
6 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
7 6 (8.82%) Oracle
7 6 (8.82%) SAP
7 6 (8.82%) VMware
8 4 (5.88%) Citrix
8 4 (5.88%) IBM
9 3 (4.41%) Google
9 3 (4.41%) Sage
9 3 (4.41%) Symantec
10 2 (2.94%) Draytek
10 2 (2.94%) NETGEAR
10 2 (2.94%) WatchGuard
10 2 (2.94%) Webroot